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Right-wing American political pundit Tucker Carlson certainly doesn’t mind telling the occasional lie or spreading a conspiracy theory or two. He regularly promotes vaccine-sceptical propaganda and was sacked from his Fox News show for airing false claims about the 2020 US election. But his latest claim is a just a little bit more ‘out there’. […]

A listing for a house on the website of the estate agent Rightmove attracted the attention of people beyond those who may be looking for a nice house to buy in the Nottingham area of reasons that are about to become obvious. This alll came about after a chap called Ade posted the listing on […]

We’ve featured no end of outrageous (and occasionally outrageously funny) online reviews being given just the treatment they deserved, and this one is up there with the very best. It’s a pub’s response to this bigoted review by a ‘local guide’ who said it’s rainbow flag was ‘inappropriate’ and concluded it was ‘not a place […]

If an alien arrived from space and had a cursory glance at the lives and habits of Brits and Americans, they would at first think we are basically the same. However, the harder they looked, the more they’d see that as cultures, we are actually worlds apart. Over on the AskUK subreddit, user Squiggally-umf has […]

To the world now of Elon Musk, where the democracy botherer has been ratcheting up his attacks on – where else? – Twitter. Having suggested that some sort of civil war was now inevitable, he now compared the UK to the Shire in Lord of the Rings, and Brits as lovely little Hobbit people who […]

It’s fair to say we didn’t learn an awful lot of new stuff from Donald Trump’s 60 Minutes interview with Norah O’Donnell, although that didn’t mean there was no shortage of jaw-dropping moments. Like the time he was asked about the crypto billionaire money launderer he pardoned, only to reply that he had no idea […]

As no-one anywhere needs reminding, Prince Andrew is no more after the King’s brother was stripped of his titles over the former Duke of York’s relationship with convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, becoming plain old Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. We mention it because Donald Trump – no stranger to Epstein himself, obviously, was asked about […]

In a recent Daily Mail column, ex-PM Boris Johnson has been opining on The Traitors, the hugely popular and successful BBC game show which is currently leading up to the final episode of its celebrity edition. The article itself is behind a paywall (no great loss, to be honest), but the gist of it is […]

Since Donald Trump moved back into the White House in January, he’s been making big changes in the look, and even the structure, of the building. He’s blinged up the Oval Office like the love-child of Saddam Hussein and a Kardashian. NEW: Trump shows off the Oval Office to his donors: “That’s all 24-karat gold. […]

We apologise for serving up news of Nigel Farage to go with your cornflakes. It can’t be good for the digestion. On Monday, the Reform leader addressed a gathering of bankers, business chiefs, and journalists in the City of London to set out his party’s economic plans and goals. He rowed back on their manifesto […]